Online JCSA: JCSA meetings take their name from the place they are held in. This JCSA held in cyberspace, was baptized, as ‘Online JCSA’. [auth] Being an online meeting, members had to familiarize themselves with…
This 5th August (2020), the Prime Minister of India did the ground-breaking ceremony (Bhumi Pujan) for Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The Prime Minster compared the 15th August when India got freedom, to the 5th August…
Can we celebrate the feast of Christmas this year in the midst of a pandemic and the scourge of COVID-19? [auth] If our idea of celebration is restricted to physical participation at various events, then…
Stanley Weintraub in his “Silent Night: The Story of the World War-I Christmas Truce,” illustrates an extraordinary moment in the history of the world. [auth] During the first World War, British soldiers and German soldiers…
On the 29th July 2020, the Union Cabinet approved the third National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, which is aligned to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and hopes to address the many growing development priorities…
Every time I send a copy of my webinar or a write-up on Stan’s arrest to my younger sister, the senior-most guardian of our family, she responds with a sigh, ‘hope they won’t arrest you…
Fr. Stan Lourduswamy SJ, aged 83, who was working for the Adivasis of Jharkhand for more than three decades, was taken into custody and imprisoned on October 9th in the Taloja prison in Mumbai. Along…
Ireturned from visiting the hospital, dog-tired and ravenously hungry. I collected my dinner from the hot box in the kitchen and ate in the reading room. The T. V. streamed news of the Corona situation…
The hallmark of the papacy of Pope Francis has been his persistent efforts and inexorable courage to address the issues that touch the grass-root realities of the contemporary human life, dignity, full-flowering of inter-dependent relationships,…
The most dreaded word today - “Corona”, literally means a white or colored circle or set of concentric circles of light seen around a luminous body, especially around the sun or moon. It also means…